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Article: U.S. business interests spar over latest effort in Congress to repeal Section 211.(repeal of legislation that prohibits Havana Club Holdings to protect Havana Club trademark within United States )
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- July 1, 2003
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Several members of the House of Representatives are fighting to repeal a law that prohibits a Cuban-French joint venture from protecting the Havana Club trade name in the United States.
The arcane law, known as Section 211, was slipped into a massive 1998 spending bill at the behest of the Bacardi rum empire, which is battling to wrest control of the Havana Club name from Havana Club Holdings (HCH), a 50-50 venture between the Castro government and France's Pernod Ricard.
On Jun. 17, the U.S.-Cuba Trademark Protection Act was introduced by Reps. Charles Rangel (D-NY); Jeff Flake (R-AZ); William Delahunt (DMA); Amo Houghton (R-NY), Earl Pomeroy (DND) and ...